The Wall Street Journal reports on new resources for caregivers. Home Instead Senior Care has started training its home-care workers in new techniques and strategies to improve care for dementia patients—and is starting to offer the same instruction at no cost online and in person to family caregivers. “Families need help keeping their loved one …
What do individuals in all health care environments desire: to live comfortably without pain. This is of particular concern to aging adults who suffer from conditions with chronic care more than any other population. A recent study in the journal of Pain Medicine examined the nature of patient-directed care and the patient-provider relationship for aging …
Technological innovations are changing the way that patients, particularly the chronically ill, receive health care. Patients are becoming responsible for coordinating more of their own care. One example of this increase in responsibility is the use of remote patient management technologies – video conferencing between physicians and patients – …